grateful - Story 55229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement didn't bother Sam today. He was too busy poring over the box his mother had kept. His schoolwork. All of it. From his kindergarten scribbles to his high school transcripts.

He found a science project on the solar system, complete with construction paper planets and a hand-drawn sun. He remembered the laughter, the shared moments of creativity with his mother.

A strange, unfamiliar emotion, was swirling inside him. He would finally take the time to organize the photo albums she had asked him to.

Emotion: grateful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.77 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grateful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 grateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.571
`de`	0.562
`B`	0.546
`மகி`	0.517
`happy`	0.493

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.582
`😖`	-0.519
`worse`	-0.509
`😫`	-0.498
`😣`	-0.494